Maize

Maize Variegated maize ears Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Subclass: Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Panicoideae Tribe: Andropogoneae Genus: Zea Species: Z. mays Binomial name Zea mays Wikispecies

Corn kernels
Wikipedia

Aztecs storing maize.
Florentine Codex,
late 16th century

• maize / agriculture
  
  
  • Origins of Agriculture in the Tehuacán Valley -- Barbara Voorhies, Douglas J. Kennett, Douglas J. Kennett
    
    
  • The Maize Page -- Ricardo J. Salvador
    
    
  • Archaeology of Maize
    
    
  • EARLY VARIETY OF MAIZE, TEHUACAN VALLEY, MEXICO
    
    
  • Maize
    
    
  • Zea mays (Maize, Corn) -- Iziko Museums of Cape Town
    
    
  • Maize Genetics
    
    
  • New research reveals the earliest evidence for corn in the New World -- EurekAlert (23 March 2009)
    
    
  • Origin and evolution of maize, heavy metals as catalyst of the evolutionary process -- Chemistry Laboratory of Natural Resources, Escuela de Químico Farmacobiología Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
    
    
• Amazing Maze Of Maize Evolution: Study On Maize Domestication May Help Improve Crop Yields -- ScienceDaily (02 October 2009)
  
  
• American Corn Growers Association (ACGA)
  
  
• Archeology And Genetics Team Up To Put A Much Earlier Date On South American Agriculture -- Science Daily (5 March 2006)
  
  
• Archaeology of Maise -- jlv2@infomagic.net
  
  
• A Zillion Uses for Corn
  
  
• Aztec Cooking --World Hearth Circle of International Cooking
  
  
• Aztec cuisine -- Wikipedia
  
  
  • compare
    • Maya cuisine
    • Native American cuisine
    • Inca cuisine
    • Spanish cuisine
      
      
• Corn Facts -- soyatech
  
  
• Corn: It's Not for Cocktails -- Science (23 March 2009)
  
  
• Corn Refiner's Association
  
  
• Corn smut? Tastes great and good for you, too: Gnarly huitlacoche fungus has high nutritional value, new test shows -- MARTHA MENDOZA, MSNBC (27 April 2010)
  
  
• Domesticated plants of Mesoamerica -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Does the Bible have errors, since it says that corn existed in the Middle East over 2,000 years ago? -- Rich Deem, godandscience.org
  
  
• The earliest archaeological maize (Zea mays L.) from highland Mexico -- D. R. Piperno and K. V. Flannery
  
  

• Earliest Evidence Of Domesticated Maize Discovered: Dates Back 8,700 Years -- ScienceDaily (25 March r 2009)
  
  
• Earliest Signs Of Corn As Staple Food Found After Spreading South From Mexican Homeland -- Science Daily (25 March 2008)
  
  
• The Food Timeline – Lynne Olver, Morris County Library NJ
  
  
• Fussell, Betty Harper. The Story of Corn. NY: Alfred A. Knop, 1994.
  
  
• Have a look at La Maestra Diana Kennedy, 88, show you how to make a proper corn tortilla: <http://www.texasmonthly.com/multimedia/video/15303> -- Texas Monthy (December 2010, 113)
  
  
• Maize [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
  
  
• Maize (Corn) May Have Been Domesticated In Mexico As Early As 10,000 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (30 June 2008)
  
  
• Maize of Guatemala
  
  
• Maize May Have Fueled Ancient Andean Civilization: Prehistoric skeletons yield evidence that farming of crop led to the rise of an early state society -- Science News (08 July 2009)
  
  
• Maize Was Passed from Group to Group of Southwestern Hunter-Gatherers, Study Suggests -- ScienceDaily (08 December 2009)
  
  
• Maya Murals Give Rare View of Everyday Life -- LiveScience (09 November 2009)
  
  
• Mutant Corn Calls for Rescue When Killers Attack -- National Geographic (03 August 2009)
  
  
• New World foods: introduced to Europe by the Columbian Exchange
  
  
• Popcorn: A Symposium -- Diner's Journal, New York Times (6 April 2007)
  
  
• Popcorn Board
  
  
• Pre-Conquest Aztec Cooking -- Jennifer Edwards Ring
  
  
• Researchers find the earliest evidence of domesticated maize -- EurekAlert (23 March 2009)
  
  
• Staller, John E., Robert H. Tykot, and Bruce F. Benz, Eds. Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 2006.
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years -- New York Times (24 May 2010)
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
  • Crops
    • Corn & Feed Grains

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• Tehuacán, Mexico
  
  
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• Atkinson, Sonja. The Aztec Way to Healthy Eating. 1992. NY: Paragon House.
  
  
• Coe, Sophie D. America's First Cuisines. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1994.
  
  
• Johannessen, Sissel, and Christine Ann Hastorf. Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
  
  
• Mangelsdorf, Paul C. Corn: Corn: Its Origin, Evolution and Improvement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Presss, 1974.
  
  
• Visser, Margaret. Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal. NY: Grove, 2010 [1986].